i love this actually

cyberpunk has had its run now it's time for cyberska give me robot rudeboys and augmentations that turn your hands into trombones

Regrettably unfollowing a few mutuals because they often reskeet untagged NSFW art.

Artists: tag your damn porn, even if it’s just non-nudity fetish stuff. It takes almost no extra time and is just considerate. I ask everyone else to please stop and think before reskeeting untagged NSFW art.

wide dk real

oh yeah i can never imagine someone just rawdogging text into ao3 without drafting elsewhere.

also any platform that doesn't let you download all of your own works(as in, works you've created) is inherently trying to lock you in. Have backups, folks. Platforms, even community ones like AO3, are not your friends in many cases.

Also from a management perspective it isn't the greatest so like yet another reason ao3 sucks I guess

The reason why this annoys me is that this issue makes it very difficult to do automatic metadata management if you're trying to have an ebook library outside of AO3 like I am. Like, it would be nice to connect stuff to AO3 but that's something they're seemingly not interested in.

Yeah so calibre only ever uses UUIDs for reasons tm

Which means AO3 can't even override this if they wanted to. So it's double bad since you don't even get the option to do this, seemingly.

I haven't realized how bad the technical foundations of AO3 are until now. This shit genuinely sucks.

Also calibre does some weird hacky massaging of EPUB output to deal with some software called ADE that it apparently depends on so it's even less reliable to use than I thought. AO3 please roll your own ebook output library. Or use a library that exists. I'm sure you can do it.

It's also not like they're handling esoteric formats. They support AZW3, EPUB, MOBI, PDF, and HTML output. AKA the most widely-used ebook formats. Also using ebook-convert means they depend on basically all of calibre. Which double sucks since i think calibre is kinda bad

But ALSO why would you do this. it sucks. It doesn't even allow to add any AO3-specific metadata such as changing the internal epub identifier(dc:identifier) to a URL, as suggested by the Epub spec. Instead, calibre just always uses a uuid seemingly. This shit sucks.

They call out to calibre's ebook-convert utility on the command line. Unless you want the HTML version, in which case they use web2disk to basically hackily convert THEIR OWN CONTENT into something to download. Which, they don't need web2disk since calibre supports outputting html

wait why does-

Okay so instead of generating ebook formats like a regular app, such as with a library or even just bitbanging their own files, they instead... And I swear I am not making this up, its in the code.

Slightly embarrassed, but betrayed by a tail wag

"Ahhaha...yeah?"

Anyway, Kingdom Hearts is arguably a trans narrative, so let's be careful about labeling the sealioning antihero a neurodivergent icon.

Surprise! I've been working on organizing this and submissions are now OPEN!

HI IF YOU'RE AAPI PLEASE SEND ME YOUR COOLEST SPEEDRUNS AND SHOWCASES!

hey POTS friends -- do any of yall know where to buy cheap compression socks in bulk?

does AO3 still not have an API in the year of our Logorithms two thousand and two six

like what are we doing here, I should not have to use a python library that fakes an API via HTML parsing. @archiveofourown.org please add an API im begging you

true because you can source bootstrap it

Is it likely against any specific person? No, but it doesn't hurt to be sure. Rotate your secrets.

dont forget if you're using agenix or similar to encrypt secrets in git and you're re-keying secrets to be Post-Quantum-safe:

You probably need to rotate those secrets as well. Don't just re-key, since storing to decrypt later is a known attack vector.

World's First Blindfolded Ship Clip in Super Mario 64!!!

THATS MY FUCKING GOAT RIGHT THERE

Femto Helper was a mistake.

im gay!!!!

too many times

to be clear i hate gradle too and am forced to work with it for reasons tm

i do not like it i wish the jvm/gradle ecosystems were better

also yeah lockfiles <3

the only good build system is nix but its forced to rely on gradle for java builds in many cases(when upstreams use gradle we really dont wanna reimpl everything in nix lol)